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It's broader than productivity alone. A team that's working long hours can be perceived as more committed, dedicated and in a fighting mood.

It's really all about team dynamics and corporate culture.

See, successful entrepreneurs are, more often than not, binary beings that totally devote themselves to their company and expect other the other people in the team to do so as well.
Someone can come and work for 5 hours and accomplish just the same as he would over 11 hours but it may send the wrong message to the group - that the company is secondary to personal life and that just meeting your obligations is really enough, no need to do beyond that.

Furthermore, some people wouldn't be able to accomplish the same over a short working day; how would that make them feel spending 11 hour days in the office, while their colleague leaves after 6 hours and still gets appreciated?
Yep, we'll throw Greece in for an extra $800, looks like!
Yes - it gives google your real identity.
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Only way to assure future updates is to buy an unlocked device directly from Google.

I bought an AT&T Nexus S from Best Buy for $49 with a 2 year contract. It did not receive updates from Google even though it had a Google logo on the back and I had to update manually by downloading from the device image download link mentioned above. I have a Galaxy Nexus now that I bought thru Google, it updated to the latest point release as soon as I turned it on. As long as device gets purchased with a contract at a subsidized price, don't expect updates to get to you over the air.
I was responding to:

>You can actually sign in to multiple google accounts and switch between them (at least for email / docs - not analytics / other services). I can't remember exactly how to do it, I think you need to enable multiple sign in on the account first.
That's because LinkedIn is not used by employees within companies to communicate like Facebook is used by students within a university to communicate. He's saying that there's a gap there that Google+ can fill.
On the other hand, LaTeX should almost be a required skill for developers and dev managers. If you use it rather than M$Office, your development docs can be source controlled, easily diffed, and otherwise gain all the benefits of code! Design docs, data flow diagrams, architecture layouts, data models, &c., &c. can all be done in LaTeX will look great.
Our class has a digital whiteboard (via projection) in the front of the class. Our teacher uses LaTeX to typeset his lessons, displayed on the board.

But yeah, on the projects, the kids are allowed to use pencil and paper to do the things that cannot normally be typed up.
Do Customers Have A Right To Know How Companies Make Money?
"At first, it’s just a place to put notes to myself, but I share them so that others can find them too. Once a few people start doing that, or a small team commits to doing it for the good of the team, the game is over. It can’t help but take off"

And when one of your team members leaves and pulls your access to their company related content/documentation they've previously placed on Google+ what do you do ???
That doesn't say anything about a legal right to import a work created under abother country's laws, or a resident of another country's right to import a work from the Netherlands.
Once you buy something, why would you need the original seller's permission to import it? I find myself personally concerned: I am studying Japanese and there is a paucity of media (books, video, et al) available in Japanese in my country. What might seem reasonable, such as arranging for books to be shipped from Japan, becomes problematic. And when I outgrow basic books, may I sell them to another student? These issues are not contrived, and are not limited to unethical cases. A broad ruling would have potentially harmful effects.
Besides advocating murder in some other comment, a quick scan of your post history reveals you mostly leave incendiary political remarks and don't really add anything useful, in my opinion, to a hacker discussion. In other words, fatbird is a troll account.

__Could someone with administrative access take a look and ban fatbird's account?__

Regarding this post specifically: I'm not sure what kind of sensible forum lets you tar an entire class of people with the label "douchebag."
Good point. I need to fix that one someday... I'm trying to find a way to deal with hovers in a better way. Maybe I should get rid of the italics altogether in that case.
While I agree, I think that a large portion of developers want some way to set themselves apart from the masses - to be recognized as Uber 10X code ninjas. Those people will never rest till they create their own credentials, whether it be number of contributions to opensource projects on Github or Coderwall achievements or a standardized test.
> Copyright is [supposedly] granted by the state on behalf of the citizens/subjects afterall; such attempts to extend the rightsholders rights at the expense of the public should be limited.

Note how this argument clearly fails to apply across national borders where there is no common "state".
I think the NEXT acquisition, which brought Steve Jobs back, was in that neighborhood from a capabilities standpoint. From a dollar standpoint, you're right, it's substantially larger than what Apple has done in the past in terms of acquisitions.
I had a Lenovo and hated it. It felt like a cheap computer made entirely of plastic. With normal use, the enclosure started to crack. Later pieces of the enclosure actually started falling off. I'll never buy one again.
If it were only about maps, you may have a point on TomTom but I argue that it's much more than maps, if you read the article.
Yeah, when Wiley stops selling discounted editions in Asia, good will have finally triumphed over evil.
Apple could argue that they need to do it to counter the threat of Android. With all the claims of more Android devices being out in the market, it's an argument that could hold water with regulators and get such a deal approved as a result.
> how would that make them feel spending 11 hour days in the office, while their colleague leaves after 6 hours and still gets appreciated?

Hopefully like an unproductive lump who needs to learn how to turn off Hacker News and Facebook during the day so they can also get some work done.
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Did you miss the part about patents? and mobile TV? and more patents? (oh yeah, and maps too :) )
The author is absolutely correct.

I can't begin to tell you how much this bugs me. It's not about how many hours it takes to do something, it's about the value created from the service or product. Is the answer the author has given worth more or less because his knoweldge and expertise allow him to provide an answer quickly? With hourly billing, it's always less. The client sees it as trivial and the employer sees little or no value.

I see it the other way. Being able to provide an answer or solution quickly shouild be rewarded. Being held accountable for correct and timely results are much more important than simply clocking hours.

Billing hourly, paying employees hourly, etc. are all counter-productive to incentivising knowledge workers to excel. Even the honest ones.
With all the noise about Android being the biggest player, Apple could make a claim that it is a defensive move before Google goes against them in court. This may get regulators to approve it.
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I highly recommend iStat Menus / MenuMeters for monitoring.

Also if you run "sudo fs_usage" in the Terminal you can see what is accessing the disk. This can easily show what new app you've installed is causing problems. Likewise learn about launchctl/LaunchAgents/LaunchDaemons so you can disable startup daemons.

Big tip: Make sure to add to the Spotlight->Privacy section any folders that you don't want indexed e.g. Downloads, Bittorrent Folders, External Drives.
Which makes a deal with ALU even more likely if no cash has to change hands (ie. ALU gives APPL a large set of patents and get the networking business, making it either #1 or #2 in telecom as a result). That deal would probably bump ALU stock up.
Before you do this.

Make sure to install XCode from the App Store and then goto XCode->Preferences->Downloads and install the "Command Line Tools".
Yes.

For the right individual (parallel entrepreneur type), time limits (due to working on more than one campaign, product, startup, etc) almost always guarantee focus, quick decision making, originality, boldness. There's no overanalyzing.
Journalist's list of latest articles confirms link between correlation and causation.

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When You say "right" it says to me that you want to somehow force this through a law. So no, I don't believe customers have a right, but it is nice to know.
This seems to be common sense to everyone who is not a "boss" and unheard of to anyone who is. Find me a company that actually follows this philosophy, and sign me up. I have yet to find one real example.

Here's the real problem companies face with people like me. If I only had to get the work done, I could be in the office for maybe one day a week. With all that free time, I would be able to do something on my own so that I wouldn't even need to work for them at all anymore. Then what do they do? By trapping me there for 40 hours a week and limited vacation time, it's very difficult for me to comfortably escape.
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Thanks Jason.

I've been through a lot of high's and low's in the last year. This list helped me realize that a lot of my hunches were correct and some of my assumptions need to be dumped. Very helpful.
>> There's an interesting point to be made here, though - "wrapping everything up in one type" is essentially what dynamic type systems do, except that it's baked into the language instead of being implemented by the programmer on an as-needed basis.

This is imprecise - a dynamic language does not really need to "wrap everything in one type" - look at Dart or Groovy. What makes it 'dynamic' is the dynamic dispatch. All dynamic languages I know dispatch based on runtime argument types, but this is only one particular form of dynamic dispatch. Declaring types in dynamic language typically is used at runtime merely as an assertion, that at this point the argument must conform to the said type.

Dynamic dispatch differs from Polymorphic dispatch in the way that polymorphic dispatch takes in account the runtime type of the target (the object whose method you are calling), but the types of the parameters are fixed at compile time.

Many dynamic languages also provide a way to customize the dispatch logic (i.e. call a default handler if no match exists) - typically via some form of Meta Object Protocol. Often the dynamic languages provide features like higher order functions, continuations, pattern matching, etc. but this has nothing to do with their dynamicity - same features are available in some static languages as well.
How does a manager measure results between two guys, one that has 18 very easy todos done, vs a guy with 3 very difficult todos done when the manager can't even comprehend the difference between the difficultly level of the tasks. Then the easy task guy looks like a rockstar, and the rockstar problem solver looks like a lazy douche.
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I live in one of the better parts of San Francisco and a man was killed by an ex-coworker about two blocks from my apartment about 15 years ago. At the time there was a lot of hysteria, but as it turns out it hasn't happened since and so was a freak occurrence rather than an indicator of a trend.
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The spam filter in Gmail is too aggressive. I've actually gotten interview confirmations in my spam folder (!), which I was lucky to notice.

And I just checked my spam folder and found three legitimate emails. They were from Linked in, glassdoor and HBO. Google really needs to improve.

edit: Make that Udacity as well..
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As someone responsible for design, who's growing into the role, thanks for this resource.
A couple times a month maybe? I know when the timeline feature first debuted I spent a lot of time looking way back in time.
The origin of 'doxing' on 4chan was to do things like convince a female that was 'attention-whoring' on the forum to do things like post nude photos of herself. Some people would immediately try to figure out who she was, in some cases they would do things like send the nude photos to work, school, and/or family, in addition to telling everyone in the forum the name/address/etc of the target.

In this sense, it makes sense for the dox'ers to want to
remain anonymous. You're convincing someone to do something, then turning it on them to attempt to ruin their life.

So 'doxing' is more specifically about destroying someone's anonymity (or pseudo-anonymity if they maintain an alias), at least in it's origins.
It would be expensive to hire all the NPC performers to administer a practical exam on large group engineering.
Human Flesh Search is just "人肉搜索" translated word by word, but literally it just means Manual Search, in contrast with automatic search done by machines.

"人肉搜索" coveres a very wide range of topics from its root http://dzh.mop.com/renrou (much like 4chan). E.g. Given the pic with part of a boob and ask for who the celeb is, or some random pic with a nice dress and ask where to buy it. Or you "人肉" the scammer on some Chinese craigslist sites. So later it envolvs identifcation of corrupt official's expensive watch. Theere's a karma-like system to keep the online community engaged.
Ask HN: Where are the opportunities outside of Silicon Valley?
Within the U.S., what other destinations could software engineers and those who are seeking to create tech startups go to? I've heard of many other cities already, but I'd like to narrow it down to two starting criteria (feel free to add your own):

* Opportunity- for those who would just like to go work, the level of demand for software developers. For those who would like to launch a startup outside of SV, the abundance of VC firms and other sources of funding in the area.

* Quality of life- the Bay Area has unrivaled weather, and unrivaled high rent prices. How do other cities compare?
Samsung set to post record profit thanks to soaring Galaxy S3 sales
This refreshes that page that says "Stay tuned. The archive of the debate will be posted shortly." that some of ya'all are refreshing anyways right now.

Note: Must be logged in to see status.
There may also be liability when you leave the job as you're retaining copies of data that doesn't belong to you.

Not to mention that in the case of a lawsuit you might be required to give access to relevant emails. Mixing personal and professional accounts could quickly get messy.
Fraud, not error, accounts for most scientific retractions
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I'd say it is more analogous to regular first-class mail in an envelope. There is some expectation of privacy, but no guarantee.
After reading this thread I went over to my gmail spam filter. Five business opportunities right there waiting in the spam folder for a reply.Gmail was the last Google service I was using, but I must now depart for better pastures. Hello nuuton email. You have just been borned.
I'm very glad, I don't think any of the 90 was redundant...
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Those bankers that helped caused the collapse were making money hand over first for their companies, and even with the reduced profitability during the recession the banks came out way ahead.
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A manager who can't figure out the difference between 18 easy items and 3 difficult items is already incompetent to manage those projects.
It doesn't really matter if it's "a smart idea", it already happens and you have no control over it. A simple search for setting up your own mail-server is just a search for people who have done that saying "don't ever setup a personal mail server because it's guaranteed to be blacklisted".

Spam has lead email to basically become this closed ecosystem. If you don't use one of the already established major email providers, ISP's or domain name registrars the reliability of email hits the floor.
You mean like virtually every single MacBook ever? A fault Apple only fixed by discontinuing the line? https://www.google.com/search?q=macbook+wrist+rest+cracks...
Note that Zynga's current valuation is more than six times what Amazon's was at the time this article was written.
Because once you've won a race there is no point in continuing to run.

Access to space never was about access to space to begin with, it was a showdown on the world political stage.
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The bad manager cannot tell the difference, and usually ends up looking like an idiot to his director.

The problem with management types vs. individual contributors is that managers have more time in the org and usually have friends who can bail them out. So a bad worker will get fired, but a bad manager will get reassigned or even promoted.
"committed" "dedicated" "hard worker"

None of these address intelligence nor even competence - and I think it is a mistake to assume a good manager wouldn't realize that. If a star performer showed up late, left early and never arrived to a meeting on time but they were doing amazing work, they'd be given a lot of leeway to do that - again, by a good manager.

That is how sales works. Top salesmen do whatever they want, nobody questions their methods nor cares about how 'committed' they seem - the only thing that matters is how much more money they are bringing the company than everybody else.

I've never worked at a Google/Facebook/Amazon class tech company but I would imagine it is similar with 10x engineers and designers there.
Try the math with GOOG instead of ZNGA, and you'll find that shorting the stock outright is a lot more cost efficient than buying puts.

The only way you make money with puts on stocks like GOOG or AAPL with huge premium is if you hit a home run, ie. a massive move on the part of the stock. Sure, theoretically there is "unbounded" risk, but in reality, that's impossible, unless you're a fool. Overnight gap ups and gap downs mayb occur, and a good trader will account for this.
I agree, but I don't think it will be necessary to pay radically more.
I was actually happy to see they did $57m losses on $250m revenues; even happier when I saw that a large sum of the loss was the new staff.

Worry not, because, in my opinion; Spotify is here to stay and is solving a problem that is certainly worth solving.

Its the combination of several factors:

A previous commenter stated that Spotify is not only competing for iTunes' money, but with piracy too. I agree; they're converting a client that was worth $0.00 over their lifetime (as well as those who 'pirated and then purchased', etc) into paying the artist per listen. That's absolutely radical.

The $20m increase in staffing is a direct product of this vision. The new staff is hard at work at making Spotify available on as many platforms, as beautifully as possible, with as many artists and in as many countries as possible.

The price, whether it be $9.99 or $12.45, won't be the problem, pricing can be fixed later with more data.

The only danger Spotify faces is the resistance it is facing in 'the rest of the world', where there may be entrenched local media companies with distribution rights, or local music/label representatives may be weary of the payment model. That would limit their scale, and Spotify needs scale to work.

... thank god for the $100m Sean Parker found for Spotify, and for the X billions more he can sway for it as well. I'd bet on Spotify today more than ever, it may be a long bet, but we haven't seen such a successful contender in this category since iTunes.

Spotify is an A+ example of what every other startup with 1/100th of the business plan or cojones is trying to do: Spotify is aiming to become a billion dollar company, and I congratulate them for that.

The music industry is worth spending tens, hundreds, even thousands of millions to fix/disrupt/change/make better.
If someone was trying to study the genetic inheritance of intelligence, you would think he or she would want to look at more uniform groups than American blacks and American whites. Given the considerable amount of immigration and intermarriage modifying these group over time, both would appear fairly mixed with "stock" beyond even the European and the African. And Europe and Africa are wide, varied areas to begin with.
That's a tricky one. On the one hand I'd say just a guy with paint on his shirt, but the fact that you know what Cadmium Yellow is definitely qualifies you as a painter!
Odd. I've never gotten it to work. I tried again today just to see if they may have changed that, but still gives me the error.
^This a million times. I'm so sick of all the irrelevant arguments made by ALL the parties involved. There is only ONE product type that can hold an artificially high value for any extended period of time; a status symbol. By definition status symbols are impossible on any digital medium. THEREFORE, stay off the internet or follow economics. I will respect either choice. I will laugh at anyone that expects to get the benefit of both without the cost of the either.
I think I remember seeing the message actually. You just blow past it and setup the filter, and it'll work, I think.
From the article it doesn't sound like he is trying to enforce long hours for everyone. Being CEO he wouldn't have time to talk in depth to employees about non critical issues.

So providing he doesn't burn out doing it, it is probably going to help the company a lot if he can put in the extra hours to be across some of the lower level stuff.
Yeah, maybe cross-border copyright shouldn't even exist... I don't see anything in the constitution about enforcing international copyright law within the United States. And even if it is part of an agreement with another country, it still can't violate the constitution, so the imported IP laws still have to encourage creation, right? Or are we not textualists? :-)

Frankly, I don't really care whether it's legal/constitutional or not. I'm more worried about whether it's a good idea. And if free trade is a good idea, then I see no problem with what the defendant did.

So Wiley charges more in Thailand, big deal. That just means that the Thai publishing industry will have more of an advantage.

Markets are (in theory) dynamic all the time, not just when it is convenient for the big boys.
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Was it like that for people who had been on the job for years, or just interns? If just interns, they probably had issues in the past with not doing it this way. You've got to earn trust etc.